Rebecca,
Try this web page for a campaign to save organic food.
http://www.saveorganic.org
Erin
Rebecca wrote:
> I am putting together a story about these proposed rules on definitions of
> organic for a community radio news program. Does anyone know where i can
> find more info? thanks.
> rebecca
>
> At 01:59 PM 4/29/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >U.S. organic farmers speak out on labeling rules
> >
> >Organic farmers who organized a wave of grassroots protest against proposed
> federal rules urged regulators Tuesday to uphold high standards for
> production of such food, not to weaken them. The Organic Trade Association
> joined 130,000 consumers, trade groups and agribusinesses in submitting
> formal comments to the Department of Agriculture about its proposed rules
> for labeling food "organic." The flood of public comments was a record for
> any USDA rulemaking and is scheduled to end Thursday. About two-thirds of
> the comments were form letters generated by the Organic Trade Association's
> grassroots campaign to oppose the use of irradiation, sewage sludge or
> genetically modified organisms in organic food.
> >http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2553921918-342
> ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">
> ><HTML>
> ><HEAD>
> >
> ><META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type>
> ><META content='"MSHTML 4.71.1712.3"' name=GENERATOR>
> ></HEAD>
> ><BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
> ><DIV>
> ><CENTER><A name=story66337:2><B><U>U.S. organic farmers speak out on labeling
> >rules</U></B></A></CENTER><BR>Organic farmers who organized a wave of
> grassroots
> >protest against proposed federal rules urged regulators Tuesday to uphold high
> >standards for production of such food, not to weaken them. The Organic Trade
> >Association joined 130,000 consumers, trade groups and agribusinesses in
> >submitting formal comments to the Department of Agriculture about its proposed
> >rules for labeling food "organic." The flood of public comments
> was a
> >record for any USDA rulemaking and is scheduled to end Thursday. About
> >two-thirds of the comments were form letters generated by the Organic Trade
> >Association's grassroots campaign to oppose the use of irradiation, sewage
> >sludge or genetically modified organisms in organic food<FONT color=#000000
> >face="Times New Roman">.</FONT></DIV>
> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 face="Times New Roman"><A
> >href="http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2553921918-342">http
> ://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2553921918-342</A></FONT></DIV>
> </BODY></HTML>
> >
> Take the wheel of the world and drive.
